Growing herbs (2)
I transplanted some of the herbs that I planted three weeks ago.
It's the first time I'm doing this; I'm curious to see how things will work out. Not all plants looked ready to go outdoors, so I'm keeping about half of them inside.
The weather has been really nice, but with the herbs outside I'm a bit worried about frost at night. It would be rare, but one night could be enough to do damage. I haven't found an RSS feed yet that can tell me if there's frost predicted for our area.
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Re: Growing herbs (2)
While its not an XML file, here's a Durham-specific URL from the weather service (I use one for Raleigh). It is trivial to parse this for 'frost' or 'freeze.'
I've also opted not to install my weather station at my new home because its a wired model and I'm opting for a wireless version. The station has a feature where it will beep when a temperature/humidity/etc. measurement hits a settable threshold. Thus, you could set it for 32 degrees F and it would wake you in the night if your herbs are in danger.
If you're interested you can have the station and the instruments (as well as the cool RRD and GTK-based software for it, too).
Mark
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Cool, that helps, thanks!
I'll set up a script to monitor that URL for 'frost' and 'freeze'. The weather forecast for the next five days says it will be above 50 degrees at night.
Thanks for the offer, but a real weather station would be a bit too high-tech for me right now.
In any case, I'm bringing the plants in for a few nights, so they have time to get used to the outdoors slowly.
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Wow, you are getting accustomed to triangle weather to know that frost is possible (albeit unlikely) in May.
J
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Some of the plants are doing well, others didn't survive the move into real soil.
I'm glad I didn't put them outside yet a few weeks ago because I wonder how many, if any, we would now have!
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The herbs on the picture are not yet fit for outdoor growing.
you shpuld wait until the new bigger leaves grow out.
On the picture one sees only seedlings with seed leaves, cotyledons, which have to grow new leaves first, before going outside.
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Really? Well, I'll leave them indoors for longer then.
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Next year a foldable greenhouse? ;-)
(as found at www.bright.nl)
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That's a cool greenhouse :)
I checked on the plants this morning; they don't look too good since I forgot to give them water for a couple of days. I they survive, it's about time I move them outdoors.
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I wonder the plants would feel about folding their home whenever you think it's in your way :-)